Timeline April 1904

Events in April 1904 7

• 1904 The Entente Cordiale Eight hundred years, set aside Britain and France settle their colonial quarrels — France gets a free hand in Morocco, Britain in Egypt, and Newfoundland fishing rights and Siam are tidied up. It is not an alliance and contains no military commitment, but it ends centuries of enmity and leaves Germany facing the possibility that its two western rivals will not fight each other. Everything about 1914 follows from which way the great powers had paired off, and this is where the pairing starts.
• 1904 The Entente Cordiale London, United Kingdom Britain and France settled their colonial quarrels. Not an alliance, but the end of centuries of enmity — and the beginning of staff talks about a European war.
• 1904 – 2000 John Gielgud (1904-2000) English actor and director, one of the great Shakespearean actors of the 20th century, who won an Oscar at 77.
• 1904 John Gielgud born in London John Gielgud is born in London.
• 1904 – 2000 Sir John Gielgud (1904-2000) Died 21 May 2000, aged 96 John Gielgud was regarded as one of the great classical actors of the twentieth century, celebrated above all for his Hamlet and his verse speaking. His stage career spanned some seventy years, and late in life he won an Academy Award for the film Arthur. With Olivier and Richardson he dominated the British theatre.
• 1904 – 1997 Willem de Kooning Abstract Expressionism · Netherlands / USA Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American painter and a leading figure of Abstract Expressionism. His Woman series provoked fierce debate about the relationship between abstraction and figuration.
• 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition Opens World's fair held in St. Louis The Louisiana Purchase Exposition opened in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 30, 1904, marking the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase. Attended by roughly 20 million visitors, the fair introduced or popularized foods such as the ice cream cone and hot dog to American audiences. It ran concurrently with the 1904 Summer Olympics held in the same city.